Interactions between urban heat islands and heat waves

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Zhao, Lei ^a   Oppenheimer, Michael ^b   Zhu, Qing ^c   Baldwin, Jane W ^a   Ebi, Kristie L ^d   Bou Zeid, Elie ^e   Guan, Kaiyu ^f   Liu, Xu ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; heat wave; surface biophysical processes; surface evaporation; urban heat island

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; LANDFORMS; RURAL AREAS;

ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT; FACTORIZATION METHODS; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; HEAT WAVES; SURFACE BIOPHYSICAL PROCESS; SURFACE EVAPORATION; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPORATION; HEAT ISLAND; HEAT WAVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNERGISM; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; URBAN POPULATION; WARMING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85048233909     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa9f73     Document Type: Article

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